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Jillian Tamaki, co-author of
This One Summer, picks the best graphic pieces of the year.
"The pieces I chose were those that stuck with me, represented something important about comics in this moment, and exemplified excellence of the craft. Surveying the final collection, I'm moved by the variety of individual approaches. There are so many ways to make us care about little marks on a page."-Jillian Tamaki, from the introduction
The Best American Comics 2019 showcases the work of established and up-and-coming artists, collecting work found in the pages of graphic novels, comic books, periodicals, zines, online, in galleries, and more, highlighting the kaleidoscopic diversity of the comics form today.
Featuring Vera Brosgol, Eleanor Davis, Nick Drnaso, Margot Ferrick, Ben Passmore, John Porcellino, Joe Sacco, Lauren Weinstein, Lale Westvind, and others.
List of contents
BILL KARTALOPOULOS Foreword
JILLIAN TAMAKI Introduction
LALE WESTVIND Grip, Vol. 1 (Excerpt)
E. A. BETHEA Bit Rot
FANNY BRITT AND ISABELLE ARSENAULTmLouis Undercover (Excerpt)
JOE SACCO Bitumen or Bust
ANATOLA HOWARD Self-Love-Cycle
LESLIE STEIN Vanguard
MARGOT FERRICK Dognurse (Excerpt)
LAUREN WEINSTEIN Being an Artist and a Mother
BEN PASSMORE Martin Luther King Jr. Was More Radical Than You Think
JOHN PORCELLINO Selections From King-Cat #78
ERIK NEBEL Why Don’t We Come Together (Excerpt)
SOPHIA FOSTER-DIMINO Small Mistakes Make Big Problems
XIA GORDON Kindling (Excerpt)
VERA BROSGOL Welcome to O.R.R.A. FROM Be Prepared (Excerpt)
JED McGOWAN Uninhabitable
NISHANT SALDANHA Snow Day for Mr. Good Guy
NICK DRNASO Sabrina (Excerpt)
REMY BOYDELL AND MICHELLE PEREZ Sex Positive FROM The Pervert (Excerpt)
ANGIE WANG In Search of Water-Boiled Fish
CONNOR WILLUMSEN Anti-Gone (Excerpt)
NOEL FREIBERT Old Ground (Excerpt)
JERRY MORIARTY whatsa paintoonist? (Excerpt)
TOMMI PARRISH Perfect Discipline FROM Perfect Discipline and Unbending Loyalty (Excerpt)
LAURA LANNES By Monday I’ll Be Floating in the Hudson with the Other Garbage(Excerpt)
ELEANOR DAVIS Hurt or Fuck
About the author
BILL KARTALOPOULOS is the publisher/editor of Rebus Books and the programming coordinator for SPX: The Small Press Expo. He was a cofounder and the programming director for the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival. He is a member of the Executive Committee for the International Comic Arts Forum (ICAF), a contributing editor for Print magazine, and has worked as an assistant to Art Spiegelman for several years. He lives and works in Brooklyn.
Summary
Jillian Tamaki, co-author of This One Summer, picks the best graphic pieces of the year.
“The pieces I chose were those that stuck with me, represented something important about comics in this moment, and exemplified excellence of the craft. Surveying the final collection, I’m moved by the variety of individual approaches. There are so many ways to make us care about little marks on a page.”—Jillian Tamaki, from the introduction
The Best American Comics 2019 showcases the work of established and up-and-coming artists, collecting work found in the pages of graphic novels, comic books, periodicals, zines, online, in galleries, and more, highlighting the kaleidoscopic diversity of the comics form today.
Featuring Vera Brosgol, Eleanor Davis, Nick Drnaso, Margot Ferrick, Ben Passmore, John Porcellino, Joe Sacco, Lauren Weinstein, Lale Westvind, and others.
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"Series editor Kartalopoulos taps Tamaki (They Say Blue, 2018, etc.) to help curate the 2019 edition of this annual collection of exceptional graphic storytelling...Eleanor Davis' incisive 'Hurt or Fuck' contemplates art and human need on an allegorical, visceral level in what could almost be a two-actor stage play. Erik Nebel's 'Why Don't We Come Together' ingeniously explores the possibilities of a rigid format—repeating but shifting shapes and colors, figures and patterns play across a set of equal-sized panels stacked into a grid, clicking through simple, whimsical stories like a filmstrip of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis...It's called 'best' for a reason."--Kirkus
